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It is said that 'things are things because of mind'. Thoughts are (relative) things as much as rocks are (relative) things. No consciousness = no things as I understand it. If nothing in this reality really exists without consciousnes as a co-cause that would include both thoughts as well as rocks. Cause and effect. No beginning, no end. Even quantum physics seems to agree that consciousness affects the reality of things (Uncertainty Principle) Anyway, that is how I see it to be.

Zennie here. Was a student of Roshi Philip Kapleau from 1991 through most of 1999 when he resided in Hollywood, Florida. Nice site here! Mahayana Buddhism seems right path for me but so many wonderful paths available, or is it just 'not one'?

Thanks for the warm welcome Marblehead and Dao Bum. I look forward to traveling around the site and getting familiar with the terrain and persuing the posts of those who herein dwell.